ANKENY – Voters in Ankeny approved a local option sales tax increase after several years of attempts by the community’s city council to get the go-ahead. The Des Moines Register reports the special election held Tuesday was to increase the city’s sales tax to seven percent, instead of the current rate of six. Ankeny was one of just five Iowa communities that did not have a local option sales tax rate, which could generate up to $12 million for the city.
DES MOINES – Multiple Iowa schools were impacted by severe weather and heavy rain that dropped six-to-eight inches of precipitation in some communities on Tuesday evening. The National Weather Service received multiple reports from border-to-border of rainfall that exceeded half-of-a-foot of water by early Wednesday morning. Several flash flood warnings were issued, which delayed some classes and closed other school buildings in central Iowa. This is the second major flash flooding event of the summer, the first of which was just before the 4th of July.
DES MOINES – A Des Moines native and U.S. Navy sailor was welcomed home on Wednesday after more than 250 days at sea. KCCI-TV reports Aviation Machinist’s Mate 2nd Class Peyton Decker was on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln for close to a year, and hadn’t spoken with his family since December. He was greeted by friends and family at the Des Moines International Airport, and will return to service soon in California.
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